"Shou Zi Chew may be the CEO of Mark Zuckerberg's biggest competitor, TikTok, but at the start of his career, he worked for Zuckerberg as an intern at Facebook. The Singapore native earned an economics degree from University College London before getting his MBA at Harvard Business School, where during the summer he interned at an up-and-coming company: "It was called Facebook," Chew told Harvard's Business School alumni website."
"With at least 150 million monthly active users in the U.S. and more than 1 billion globally, TikTok has become a mainstay of social media and a rare top platform that is not under the control of Zuckerberg. But just because he doesn't own it, doesn't mean he never tried. Zuckerberg reportedly spent much of 2016 trying to acquire a key part of what would become TikTok-a lip syncing app popular with Americans called Musical.ly, Buzzfeed News reported."
Shou Zi Chew began his career as an intern at Facebook after earning an economics degree from University College London and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He worked across California, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Beijing before joining Xiaomi in 2015 and becoming CFO, helping take the company public in 2018. Chew joined ByteDance in 2021 as CFO and soon became CEO of TikTok, later focusing solely on the short-form video platform. TikTok grew to over 150 million U.S. monthly active users and more than 1 billion globally. Meta attempted to acquire Musical.ly in 2016, launched Lasso in 2018, and shut it down in 2020.
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